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22 Or who ſhall rule the Iſle Britain,

From the north to the ſouth ſea?

The French wife shall bear the ſon,

Shall rule all Britain to the ſea,

That of the Bruces blood ſhall come,

As near as the ninth degree.

I frained faſt, what was his name?

Whence that he came? from what country:

In Eriſlingtown, I dwell at hame,

Thomas Rymer men call me.

The Prophecy of.

PON Lowdon Law alone as I lay,

Looking to the Lennox, as me lief thought,

The firſt morning of May, medicine to ſeek,

For malice and melody, that moved me ſore,

I lyed down, and leaned me and lifted well ſleep,

Upon the height of a hill where the voice bade.

And as I lyed down, and hielded mine eyes,

So hears I an horſe voice, and an hie cry,

That bade me Waldhave beware, and me well keep,

For fear of a wild beaſt, that his weird dries.

Therewith I ſtoniſh, and ſtood, and ſtart on my feet,

And fained me on every ſide, as the voice bade.

Then I looked uat let, lightly me frae.

And ſaw an hirſal on hie, of hares together,

An hundred I hope, well wholly there was:

Then of foxes, a flock fully five ſcore:

All following on a fierce beaſt that rudly them chas'd,

That was all wood through weird woſul to ſee.

Right ragged and rent, and riven in pieces:

A battle with haftoun, the hare on his broad lufes,

Like a brimful heirs, battle to make.

He thought to effray, and them faſt preſſed,

As he is hold would them fang, firm at his will:

But when he ſaw me with fight, ſoon he them left;

And when he ſhundered away, no more I them ſaw:

Then groaning grimly,he girt to me ſoon,

As Gerrert the great ſhrew had done for the nonce,

He ſtruck faſt with his ſtaff, and ſtoniſht me fore:

But I keeped him by Chriſt, with a keen weapon,

That was my ſword, all I ſwat, bringing me about